Todd Palin, Used Wife's Office For Revenge. Second Scandal Involving Abuse Of Power

[KittyWampus]

Todd Palin, Shadow Governor of Alaska
by polecat
Fri Aug 29, 2008 at 01:10:06 PM PDT


Todd's fingerprints on trying to impact personnel decisions appear to go beyond the current scandal revolving around State Trooper Mike Wooten.

Follow me below as we talk about one of Governor Palin's former trusted advisors, John Bitney.

Bitney went to school with Sarah Heath (now Palin) and tells a story about being in the same band class with her and was also part of her campaign for the Governor's office.

But John Bitney made the fatal employment mistake; he got on the bad side of Todd Palin.

Bitney was dating the ex-wife (or soon-to-be) of one of Todd Palin's friends. Todd Palin allegedly then demanded that Bitney be fired. Shortly thereafter Bitney worked out a deal with the Chief of Staff to transfer to another department, OUT OF THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE.

The story continues:

On July 3, Bitney was in the process of driving his vehicle back to Juneau when he couldn't get his state issued Blackberry to work. When he arrived in Tok he called his office and was told that his Blackberry had been turned off and that his name had been removed from the state employee directory.

There is a lot of there, there.

Continuing:

His call was then transferred into Tibbles who told him the proposal they talked about was a no deal and the governor ordered him fired immediately. John Bitney was never given a reason why he was fired and never given a chance to make a graceful exit.

Read the article. It goes on with email evidence, and the joyous note that Todd Palin cannot get Executive Privilege.http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/29/155145/681/530/579154

[KittyWampus]

1. kick

[maddezmom]

2. this coupled with this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x379663

are making things very interesting

[stillcool]

3. He's a busy guy...

he's worked for BP for 18 years..took a leave of absence for 7 months prior to Sarah's election. Now he's a commercial fisherman, maybe still works for BP, takes care of 5 kids, and he helps out in the Governor's office?

Governor's husband goes back to BP job on the North Slope
http://www.alaska.com/adn/front/story/9245100p-9159409c.html
SLOPE WORKER: One critic calls timing bad as oil tax debate nears.
By STEFAN MILKOWSKI
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
(Published: August 23rd, 2007)
Alaska's first gentleman has returned to work for BP on the North Slope.

Todd Palin took a leave of absence from the company in January and went back to work late last month, according to Sharon Leighow, a spokeswoman for Gov. Sarah Palin, Todd's wife.

Todd Palin took the leave to deal with a hectic schedule and help take care of the family's four children, Leighow said, and not because of any conflict of interest.

Todd Palin's role
Posted by Alaska_Politics
http://community.adn.com/node/127769
Posted: July 25, 2008 - 8:06 pm

From Sean Cockerham in Anchorage --

It's not uncommon for Gov. Sarah Palin's husband, Todd, to be included on governor's office e-mails, a fact raising questions about how much influence the "First Dude" has in state government.

MONEGAN SPEAKS: Names Todd Palin & others
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/monegan_speaks_says_todd_palin_pressured_him_to_fire_wooten
Tonight on KTUU Channel 2 News, former Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan broke his silence and admitted that he was pressured on numerous occasions by Todd Palin to fire State Trooper Mike Wooten.

Monegan said he met with Palin numerous times to talk about Wooten as well as Frank Bailey from the governor's office and Commissioner of Administration Annete Krietzer who also pressured him to fire Wooten.

http://www.andrewhalcro.com/monegan_speaks_says_todd_palin_pressured_him_to_fire_wooten